Now
retired, Sen. Neal thanks all who supported him in his 32 years
in the upper house. He will remain engaged (see below) with the
great issues, as he has throughout his life.The continuing high volume of traffic to this website reinforces
and rewards that commitment. Thank you.

On
Aug. 2, 1924, author James Baldwin was born
in New York City. The author of "Go Tell It on the Mountain,"
"The Fire Next Time" and so many other works, eventually
relocated to France to escape the stigma of being known as "the
black author." He died on 1 Dec. 1987 in St. Paul de Vence,
France; on this datein
1942, farmworker José Gallardo Díaz,
near death, was found in a road near Sleepy Lagoon reservoir
in southern California, sparking a wartime orgy of anti-Latino
police and journalism activities, dubious prosecutions of suspects,
and the Zoot Suit Riots of 1943; on
this date in 1957,The
Big Beat, a rock and roll show that predated American
Bandstand and featured an astonishing array of stars, appeared
for the last time, cancelled by ABC after singer Frankie
Lymon was spotted dancing with a white girl on the show.
(The 1924
item was suggested by Garrison Keillor's daily Writers
Almanac sponsored on National Public Radio by The
Poetry Foundation; the latter pair appear courtesy of longtime
Nevada jourmalistDennis
Myers' dailyPoor Denny's Almanac.)

On
July 28, 1917during
World War One and after rioting whites in East St. Louis killed
40 black residents, 8,000 African Americans marched down Fifth
Avenue in absolute silence to protest U.S. oppression of its
black citizens in community life and in the armed services;
on
7-28-1932
in the District of Columbia, four troops of cavalry, six tanks,
infantrymen with machine guns, and miscellaneous other forces
all led by
Douglas MacArthur
(who said the fate of the republic was at stake) attacked the
Bonus Army, unemployed veterans of World War One who had marched
across the nation to demand early payment of a promised bonus;on 7-28-1967, President Johnson
established
the National Commission on Civil Disorders (whose report, submitted
on February 29, 1968, he ignored).(Courtesy
of Nevada journalist Dennis
Myers'daily almanac.)

On
Nov. 23, 2014, after revelations by The Barbwire/Sparks Tribune,
the Reno News & Review and the Reno-Sparks NAACP, Assemblymember
Ira-Hansen, R-Sparks,resigned
as speaker-designate of the Nevada State Assembly.

ON
THE AIR > Reno-Sparks
NAACP President Patricia Gallimore and First Vice-President
Andrew Barbano guested on The Crisis Magazine Radio Program, Tuesday,
19 April 2016 at 10:10 a.m. PDT. The hostess was Crisis Publisher
Laura Blackburne. The program aired live on WTHE
1520-amin the New York
City/New Jersey/Connecticut metropolitan area. Established in
1910, The
Crisisis the official
publication of the NAACP.

Sen.
Neal's statement on the resignation of the University of
Missouri's president

The
students' protest has caused the president to resign.
I hope that this is first a means of taking charge of
their education. Raw power has to mean something. When
it is used to remove something, the replacement must be
better than that which was removed.

A message has been sent to college and university presidents
across the country that they have a responsibility to
correct the negative things which may affect their campuses.

The tactics which were being used against black students
were calling them "niggers." Apparently, this
type of abuse, among other things, has been going on for
some time without any corrective action provided or proposed
by the administration.

So
the black students sought a level of influence that has
been seen at educational institutions since the early
1960s when Texas Western beat the University of Kentucky
for the NCAA basketball championship.

The students solicited the cooperation of the football
team and got it, both black and white, in calling for
the resignation of the president. The football team decided
to boycott any games to be played in the future until
the president resigned. This resulted in the resignation
of the president and now has the high probability of forcing
needed changes in racial relations at the university.(11-9-2015)

On
July 24, 1963, to avoid the embarrassment of a civil rights
march against Las Vegas segregated casinos, the Sahara
broke the solid phalanx among casinos and agreed to talks with
the local NAACP branch headed by Marion Bennett; in 1971,
John D. Loudermilks Indian Reservation (The Lament
of the Cherokee Reservation Indian) by The Raiders
hit number one on the Billboard chart and went on to become
the biggest selling single in the history of Columbia Records.
[Courtesy
of longtime Nevada reporterDennis
Myers' daily Poor Denny's Almanac]

7-23-2015On
this date in in 1868, the 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution,
providing for due process under the law, was ratified.[Courtesy
of Poor Denny's Almanac]On
this date in 1991, President Bush the Elder signed the Americans
with Disabilities Act into law.

MEMORIAL SERVICE: Friday, Oct. 17, 11:00 a.m., St. Peter's Catholic
Church, 204 S. Boulder Highway @ Lake Mead, Henderson [Editor's
note: We were originally informed that the service was at
11:00 a.m., changed to 12:00 noon then back to 11:00 a.m. We
hope this is the final schedule. Sorry for any inconvenience.]

Former
Nevada State Assembly Majority Leader Jeffrey, D-Las Vegas, was
a longtime legislative colleague of Sen. Neal. Condolences
to his friends and family.

Statement
from Sen. Neal:"Jack
was one of my favorite people at the Legislature. When Gov.
List wanted to take the fire
sprinkler law away from me in 1981, Jack made a trip
to the Senate to ask me about it, noting that the governor wanted
to substitute his bill for mine. I told Jack to take all the
good things from the governor's bill and put them into mine."

"I
am sad to hear about the death of my friend Jack Jeffrey.
Jack and I served together in the Nevada Assembly for many
years. We served on committees and shared a labor background.
My heart goes out to his wife Betty and the family. The
people of the State of Nevada benefit from Jack's hard work
as a legislator."

60
YEARS' WORTH OF EXPERIENCE SORELY MISSED IN 2011(3-21-2011) 32-year
former Sen. Joe Neal and 28-year former Assemblyman
Bob Price, both D-N. Las Vegas, back in the great halls
where they belong. Sen. Neal was in Carson City to witness
the introduction of the first bill sponsored by his daughter,
freshman Assemblywoman Dina Neal, D-N. Las Vegas.
Bob and Nancy Price journeyed from
their Sparks home
to the capital for a noontime workers rally. (Photo courtesy
of Nancy Price.)

Education
Dysfunction Part XLIV>Pots
and Kettles: Can't we all get along?BREAKING
NEWS: WCSD Vice-President Dave Aiazzi has announced that he has been
diagnosed with leukemia and will be resigning by the end of September.
Remember him with healing thoughts and prayers.Barbwire by Barbano / Expanded from the Sparks
Tribune / 8-7-2014

Now
at BillMoyers.com(5-24-2014)  The website of the nation's
most important TV show, which Northern Nevada's PBS affiliate KNPB TV-5
has refused to carry for years
Full Show: Facing the Truth: The Case for Reparations
Eight Charts Show Why Racial Equality Is a Myth in America
Looking Beyond the Minimum Wage
Living Apart: How the Government Betrayed a Landmark Civil Rights Law
Voting Rights Act Fix Stalled in Congress
When Chicago's west side fought back
How the Great Society Democratized Our Economy
Getting a College Degree Wont Protect Black Workers From the Economys
Racial Barriers
60 Years After Brown v. Board, Will Congress Revive a Dual School System?
A New Poor Peoples Movement Must Have Leadership From Poor People
Race, the war on drugs and mass incarceration
The war on climate scientists with David Suzuki, eminent PBS contributor
 Morning Reads: Debtors' Prisons Are Back; Pope: It's 'Sinful' to
Continue Causing Climate ChangeNegative
Optimism: Making the best of being worstBarbwire
by Barbano / Expanded from the
5-8-2014 Sparks Tribune

Washoe Valley resident,
UNR political science major and 2013 Outstanding Nevada Legislative
Intern Janette Dean is working toward passage of the ERA and
plans to reach out to a Nevada State Senator to introduce ratification
legislation in the 78th Session. She was also able to speak
with U.S. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Searchlight,
on Monday morning at a "Meet the Candidate and Elected
Officials" forum in which he emphasized the importance
of many issues such as comprehensive immigration reform, expanded
renewable energy usage, an increase in the minimum wage, and
equal pay for women who earn just 77 cents to the dollar compared
with men.

In reply to her question
about supporting the ERA, Reid told Dean and the audience that
he would have no problem supporting federal legislation providing
passage of the ERA or with Nevada ratification as one of the
final three states needed.

In fact,
he told Dean, "It's been long enough, hasn't it?"

Dean says she also wants passage of the ERA because "it
will finally allow the United States to also ratify the U.N.
Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination
Against Women (CEDAW) treaty which we signed in July 1980 but
did not ratify because there is no strong legal mechanism to
put its provisions into practice which is required upon ratification;
the ERA as the 28th Amendment would provide that. Only
seven out of 194 countries have not ratified the CEDAW treaty,
including the United States, Sudan, South Sudan, Somalia, Iran
and two small Pacific island nations (Palau and Tonga)."

Dean also stated
that her current International Human Rights class inspired her
involvement to help get Nevada to ratify the ERA. "In class,
I learned that despite the fact that women should be protected
under existing human rights laws, widespread discrimination
in terms of pay, leadership positions, unprosecuted violence,
legal bias, and other forms of discrimination continues including
deprivation of education and healthcare in several developing
areas. This is why laws that specifically outlaw discrimination
by sex are indeed necessary such as the long overdue ERA."

Text of the
Equal Rights Amendment:

Section 1. Equality of rights under the law shall not be denied
or abridged by the United States or by any state on account
of sex.

Section 2. The Congress shall have the power to enforce, by
appropriate legislation, the provisions of this article.

Section 3. This amendment shall take effect two years after
the date of ratification.

POOR
DENNY'S ALMANAC 11-21-2013
 On this date in 2004, Ray Hagar and Sandi Wright reported in
the Reno Gazette-Journal that local schools attended by low income
students tended to be the most poorly maintained schools.THE
BARBWIRE RESPONDS: So what else is new? Over the decades, the RGJ has
done a sterling job investigating separate but unequal health care and
education. Alas and alack, nothing much ever changes on the High Desert
Plantation. For a quick sad summary, see the Barbwire
of April 2, 2006 (updated periodically).

NOTE: Two items
at the above link regarding Sen. Neal require correction.
He served in the Nevada State Senate for 32 years, 1972-2004,
the second-longest tenure in state history. He ran for governor
twice, in 1998 and 2002. In the latter year, he made history
as the first major party African-American nominee for the
state's top office.

On
Mr. Ralston's July 24 program, attorney and Nevada Assembly
Majority Leader William Horne, D-Las Vegas, defended the 2011
measure, opposed by Laura Martin of the Progressive Leadership
Alliance of Nevada. Neither acquitted him/herself very well.
You may view the program online and decide for yourself byclicking
here.

The
brutal law of unintended consequencesBetween the devil and the deep Joe
NealSen.
Neal's long-lost research may invalidate more than 100 longstanding
Nevada laws
IRONY ALERT>New
higher electoral standard for teachers' tax petition may generate
more support
Barbwire by Barbano / Expanded from the 2-28-2013 Daily Sparks Tribune